Highly birefringent neutrocyanine dyes for photorefractive polymers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3471, Issue , 1998, Pages 41-49

  Wortmann, R ^a   Wurthner F ^a   Sautter, A ^a   Lukaszuk, K ^a   Matschiner, R ^a   Meerholz, K ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanine limit; Electrooptical absorption; Excited state dipole moment; Ground state dipole moment; Neutrocyanines; Photorefractive polymers; Polarizability anisotropy; Second order polarizability; Transition dipole moment

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CHARGE TRANSFER; DYES; ORGANIC POLYMERS;

DIOXANE; ELECTROOPTICAL ABSORPTION MEASUREMENT; GAIAN COEFFICIENT; GROUND STATE DIPOLE MOMENT; NEUTROCYANINES; OPTICAL EXCITATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE POLYMERS; POLARIZABILITY ANISOTROPY; SECOND ORDER POLARIZABILITY; TRANSITION DIPOLE MOMENT;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 0032404650     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.328173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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